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House of UnAmerican Activities Committee
Searched for communists and other suspected subversives for nearly forty years. This brought about chaos, making the public aware that there could be "UnAmerican" people around them. -
GI Bill
A law that provided a range of benefits for returning World War II veterans. This made the public happy and was an incentive to fighting for the country. -
Truman Doctrine
American foreign policy created to counter Soviet geopolitical spread during the Cold War. Provide assistance to all democratic nations under threat from external or internal authoritarian forces. -
Marshall Plan
This Sparked economic recovery, meeting its objective of ‘restoring the confidence of the European people in the economic future of their own countries and of Europe as a whole.’ -
Berlin Airlift
If West Germany was to become its own country then Berlin located more than 100 miles from its border could no longer be its capital was the idea. But the thought of threat was also a risk of turning the Cold War in an actually war. -
NATO
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization was created in 1949 by the United States, Canada, and several Western European nations to provide collective security against the Soviet Union. NATO was the first peacetime military alliance the United States entered into outside of the Western Hemisphere. This decreased tension, helping these states feel more secure. -
Brinkmanship
Ultimately, it worsened the relationship between the USSR and the US. -
Warsaw Pact
Called on the member states to come to the defense of any member attacked by an outside force and it set up a unified military command under Marshal Ivan S. Konev of the Soviet Union. It was made to protect others from war. -
Eisenhower Doctrine
This was a proposal to a joint session of the U.S. Congress calling for a new and more proactive American policy in the region. It defends nations against communism, and allows a country to request American economic assistance from U.S. military forces if it was being threatened. This causes less tension for other countries, letting them know that they have back up if needed. -
Sputnik
The crisis was a key event in the early Cold War that triggered the creation of NASA and Space Race between the two superpowers. -
U-2 Incident
The U-2 spy plane incident raised tensions between the U.S. and the Soviets during the Cold War, the largely political clash between the two superpowers and their allies that emerged following World War II. -
Bay of Pigs
The Cuban exile brigade began its invasion at an isolated spot on the island’s southern shore known as the Bay of Pigs. Almost immediately, the invasion was a disaster. This brought about tensions. -
Cuban Missile Crisis
The two superpowers plunged into one of their biggest Cold War confrontations after the pilot of an American U-2 spy plane making a high-altitude pass over Cuba. -
Nuclear Test Ban Treaty
which prohibited all test detonations of nuclear weapons except for those conducted underground. The test ban was provided by rising public anxiety over the magnitude of nuclear tests. -
Berlin Wall
Days after sealing off free passage East and West Berlin with barbed wire, East German authorities begin building a wall to permanently closing off access to the United States. Suppression of human rights by the Eastern bloc during the Cold War.
